The commitment of traders report, which from now on ... market positioning by the smart money. If by reading this guide you no longer find the CoT data to represent a lagging concept and if ...

The COT also delineates the number of contracts involved in spreads. The reports are read as tables, which each row and column labeled appropriately (see the example above). The information in the ...

But there is one area that exchange-traded and cleared contracts have the upper-hand and that is in data capture, simply by virtue of the fact that all trades take place on a centralised exchange and ...

There are many different ways to read the COT report, and there are many analysts that focus specifically on this report (we are not one of them) so we won't claim to be the experts on it.

There are nearly as many theories on how to read a COT report as there are market analysts. Each has an opinion on which sets of data provide speculators with an edge and which is simply ...